𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘯
How can I appreciate you
from thousands of miles away?
the water between us is deep,
bitter with the salt called memory,
choking on macro and micro events
suffocating our future
I remember when I was twelve
how you’d let me rest
my fat head on your tropic shoulder
how you would rest yours against mine
how in those moments we were one,
a breadfruit tree soon split into two
one branching north to die
the other remaining south as it withers.
These bitter truths come to me
in intervals, a white wave,
a blur in my vision
my body toxic from the bile
seeping out from these revelations.
I spit it all out into the eroding world
thousands of miles away
into the suffocating air,
into the warming void meant to make us
forget beginnings and endings,
our conception and extinction.
𝐛𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐧
Here is a poem from this hauntingly beautiful and piercing Queeribbean poetry collection by Dr. Linzey Corridon. It’s one of the most impactful collections I’ve read. If you haven’t read it or added it to your TBR for the year, you must! You can read more of Dr. Corridon’s poetry over at @intersect.anu ’s website: intersectantigua.com. More thoughts to come.
#westofwestindian #linzeycorridon #queeribbean #readcaribbean #poetrycollection
“What is it about grief, that it enters a space a fog and leaves it burdened?”
“The Village Weavers,” written by the inimitable Myriam Chancy, is a cynosure among the novels I read in 2025. Being in Japan, so far removed from my own home and region, Antigua/The Caribbean, at the time of reading it, made Sisi’s later alienation with her family in the US incredibly resonant.
Who could I turn to in that faraway place to ask: do you remember this feeling too? This smell? This taste? This memory? These are the things you can reminisce about among the people you grew up in a small place where history is shared. While people from faraway locales can certainly understand and relate with comparative experiences, it has a more distant affective resonance.
But what stayed with me most were those scenes of whimsy and wonder in early 1940s Port-au-Prince, when class asymmetries and racial-ethnic tensions were obscured by childhood innocence.
I felt nostalgic for the familial warmth and community of village life into which Sisi was enfolded, and which Gertie, despite her privileges, yearned for. The novel makes the loss of this life eminently grievable.
Their childhood innocence moved me, and reminded me of others I encountered, like young Lenu and Lila’s in “My Brilliant Friend” (the series adaptation based on Ferrante’s work). It’s the kind of friendship that becomes frayed and then calcified into serrated edges—made vulnerable to injury from the conditions in which they grew up.
Sisi and Gertie speak across time, stretching weathered hands through a fog of grief, to touch each other’s wounds differently. In so doing, they give this novel its staying power. There’s so much more to say about this novel. But for now, here is a quote that pierces:
“At the time, Gertie thought Sisi would get over it, that their differences of opinion about the island, their families, would dilute over time, but Sisi didn’t get over it, had too long a memory, and their differences, if Gertie could call them that, became stronger, pungent, like black tea left too long to steep, embittered.”
🐦⬛🪹🍃
#TheVillageWeavers #ReadCaribbean #ReadingRec #MyriamChancy #Booksthatmademe
Collective Day of Action organised by the Assembly of Caribbean People- NO U.S military intervention in the Caribbean! Read caption for info on your country: 🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago show up in numbers to send a strong message!! Oct 16th media conference opposite the US embassy- 10 AM
Contacts for countries listed:
-Trinidad and Tobago – David Abdulah – email : [email protected]/ Liz- [email protected]
-Dominican Republic – Isabel Tejada – email: [email protected]
-Haiti- Camille Chalmers – email : [email protected]
-Barbados – David Denny – email : [email protected]
-Martinique – Robert Sae – email : [email protected]
-Puerto Rico – Hilda Guerrero – email: [email protected]
-Suriname - Claudette Etnel – email : [email protected]
-Curacao – Angelo Meyer – email: [email protected]
There are also actions being planned in:
Grenada, Dominica, St. Martin, St. Vincent, Aruba, Belize, Jamaica, and Guyana
Will update the caption if any other countries organise. If your country is not listed or if you are in the diaspora, you are asked to organise an activity. Please let us know what you have planned.
This will be a collective regional action on October 16th.
Send a message if you need more information about the action in your country.
Please read and sign onto this declaration by The Assembly of Caribbean People. Link in bio to sign. Swipe for versions in English, Español, Kreyòl Ayisyen, and French.
Yesterday, 15 September the US carried out another execution in Caribbean waters killing 3 people. On 12th Sept. they targeted, assaulted and hijacked a fishing boat of 9 fisherfolks and on 2nd Sept the US military struck a boat, killing 11 people. The Caribbean must remain a zone of peace! This is only the start and they will continue to get away with it unless we stop it. They have aided and abetted a genocide in Ga/za for 2 years and we keep saying what we've allowed to happen there will happen everywhere.
US OUT OF CARIBBEAN WATERS!
HANDS OF VENEZUELA!
✨️
Thanks @joshuadwd for the cover graphic ☀️
*There are currently 12 Caribbean countries and 3 Latin American countries that offer Flags of Convenience (FOC). Boats can ship weapons to israel using FOC from these countries. They are: Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Grenada, Honduras, Panama, and Bolivia.
A global supply chain of complicity is crucial in enabling Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza..and it often starts in the Caribbean.
Demand governments providing FOC stop enabling Israel's genocide, Because when states offer their flags to ships carrying weapons to a genocide, they are complicit.
Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 must stand by their directive and hold the company accountable under international law. The government of Antigua and Barbuda is complicit in the genocide for contrary to the Genocide Convention, which forbids supplying of arms "where there is a substantial risk" that a party will commit war crimes-precisely what's happening in Gaza.
@afroaboriginal47@bds.movement@movimiento_bds
Gaza is calling 🇵🇸
Re-posting this article that is updated DAILY by Nyala Thompson Grunwald @grunwthomps_nyala 🇹🇹 featuring on the ground information, collective actions urgently - and consistently - needed with Gaza.
Please save, subscribe, and check daily for some important updates.
We are all complicit in this, and we all have a responsibility to build better - organise locally within your communities, reach out to us to strengthen solidarity networks, pressure local, regional and global governance, donate to aid provision and supply, amplify voices from Gaza.
100% of the Gaza is being catastrophically starved, and aid is just a ways away from the border.
Free free all a' We!
Cover photo by @abigailimages for @vulgar_fraction 🇹🇹 Mas' 24
THE WORLD MUST ACT‼️
Use your voice, donate to individual fundraising campaigns, grassroots orgs, and organise to end this.
Repost from @so.informed -
A new report from
the United Nations Special
Rapporteur on Violence Against
Women and Girls states clearly:
the crimes inflicted on
Palestinian women and girls by
israeli occupation forces are so
extreme that existing concepts
in legal and criminal frameworks
can no longer adequately
describe or capture them.
Big up St Vincent & the Grenadines 🇻🇨🔥 for being 1 of the 12 countries to implement these immediately and Cuba (always) 🇨🇺
Hague Group member states announce:
-full embargo on weapons to "israel" blocking ships carrying weapons to "israel" from docking at ports
-ending contracts that support israeli occupation
-supporting prosecutions of
israeli criminals at national and international levels
@comraderalph@caricomorg
We demand action, not more empty words.
CARICOM’s latest statement (11th June) on Gaza is not enough - they did not address any of our demands.
We’ve issued a response letter stating our demands again-the Caribbean must take a firm stand against israel’s genocide in Gaza, apartheid, and war crimes.
If CARICOM fails to act, your governments will:
-Be further complicit in a genocide declared illegal under treaties you have ratified;
-Lose moral credibility on matters of sovereignty, Black liberation, and human rights;
-Face public outrage and reputational consequences from citizens who no longer accept neutrality as an option.
@middleeastmonitor article from 12 July* 2025 :
/20250713-caribbean-civil-society-organisations-demand-action-on-gaza-from-regional-governments/
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From comrade Libre in Gaza 🇵🇷 @afroaboriginal47 :
Day 646: We did water
distribution with
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and all water, including drinking
water is becoming increasingly
difficult to get. People are
getting sick, some even dying,
because of lack of access to
water. 80% of the sanitation &
water facilities are in red zones,
intentionally blocked by
zioni$ts. There isn't enough fuel
entering to run water facilities
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